Fans of Taylor Swift are speculating that she has found a clever way of outplaying Scooter Braun after he bought the rights to all the music from her first six albums last year.
On Sunday the singer excitedly tweeted a cover of her song Look What You Made Me Do, which she revealed was used in the latest episode of Killing Eve.
The haunting reinterpretation apparently comes from a group called Jack Leopards & The Dolphin Club, but the band doesn’t seem to exist.
Played: Taylor Swift appears to have outsmarted Scooter Braun by recording a cover of her song Look What You Made Me Do and disguising it under another band name
‘VERY STOKED about this cover of lwymmd on @KillingEve by Jack leopards & the dolphin club!!,’ Taylor wrote.
However, a quick search for the band shows just the one Taylor cover credited to them.
Furthermore, Taylor’s producer pseudonym, Nils Sjoberg, is listed on the track’s producer credits.
She used the name back in 2016 on her now ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris’ song This Is What You Came For.
STOKED: On Sunday the singer excitedly tweeted a cover of her song Look What You Made Me Do that is used in the latest episode of Killing Eve
It’s rumored that it’s Taylor’s brother Austin, 28, singing the cover.
As Dailymail.com reported back in January, the Grammy winner asked Killing Eve executive producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge if her little brother could sing on the soundtrack.
Additionally, Austin’s Twitter handle used to be ‘The Dolphin Club’.
Other fans are speculating that it’s Taylor’s voice but digitally lowered so it sounds like a man.
The 30-year-old singer became embroiled in a feud with her former label boss Scott Borchetta earlier this year after he sold Big Machine records to Scooter Braun, who gained the rights to all of Taylor’s music that had been recorded under the label.
Owns her music: Taylor became embroiled in a feud with her former label boss Scott Borchetta earlier this year after he sold Big Machine records to Scooter Braun (pictured), who gained the rights to all of Taylor’s music that had been recorded under the label
Taylor claimed at the time she had never been given the opportunity to buy her own music herself, and in December she doubled down on her comments, saying she was ‘denied’ the chance to own her own recordings.
She said: ‘I spent 10 years of my life trying rigorously to purchase my masters outright and was then denied that opportunity, and I just don’t want that to happen to another artist if I can help it.
‘I want to at least raise my hand and say, “This is something that an artist should be able to earn back over the course of their deal – not as a renegotiation ploy – and something that artists should maybe have the first right of refusal to buy.”
‘God, I would have paid so much for them! Anything to own my work that was an actual sale option, but it wasn’t given to me.’
Keeping it in the family: It’s rumored that it’s Taylor’s brother Austin, 28, singing the cover – she pitched the idea of him singing for the Killing Eve soundtrack to executive producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge back in January
Although she can’t buy her masters back, the ME! hitmaker still has some ‘power’ with her old music, as she is the person who wrote the tracks.
Taylor also revealed she plans to re-record her first six albums again this year, so that she can own her own versions of the songs.
She added to Billboard magazine’s Women in Music issue: ‘Thankfully, there’s power in writing your music. Every week, we get a dozen synch requests to use Shake It Off in some advertisement or Blank Space in some movie trailer, and we say no to every single one of them.
‘And the reason I’m rerecording my music next year is because I do want my music to live on. I do want it to be in movies, I do want it to be in commercials. But I only want that if I own it.’
Taylor and Scooter’s most recent feud came when the singer alleged that Big Machine had tried to stop her from performing any of her old material at the American Music Awards (AMAs) in November, as well as banning her from using her tracks in a planned Netflix documentary
Taylor and Scooter’s most recent feud came when the singer alleged that Big Machine had tried to stop her from performing any of her old material at the American Music Awards (AMAs), as well as banning her from using her tracks in a planned Netflix documentary.
The Lover singer was eventually allowed to perform her songs at the awards ceremony in November 2019, after Big Machine released a statement denying the allegations and insisting there was ‘false information’.
The company said: ‘As Taylor Swift’s partner for over a decade, we were shocked to see her Tumblr statements yesterday based on false information. At no point did we say Taylor could not perform on the AMAs or block her Netflix special. In fact, we do not have the right to keep her from performing live anywhere.’
Regaining control: Taylor revealed last year that she plans to re-record her first six albums again this year, so that she can own her own versions of the songs